Posted on 09/01/2021 12:50:14 PM PDT by 4everontheRight
I have plenty of iodized salt and meat preservation salt. I also have food grade wax. Dip a block of cheese several times in the wax and it be be good to eat for a long time without refrigeration.
Didn’t forget about the pets. Have a crate of sardines packed in water for the cats.
Beans, Rice, Pasta, Canned Meat and any canned veggies.
I have a question, is that uncooked roast? Do they charge?
Look into kitchen garbage gardens. Some vegetables can be grown in the ground or window sills. Onions, garlic and potatoes are some that can be grown outside. Carrots and celery can be grown in a window sill for their tops only.
If you can’t get seed packets, you can save and dry the seeds out of grocery store tomatoes, berries, bell peppers, chilis, melons, etc. Place some seeds on a saucer and let them air dry on a counter, then put them in an envelope with the name and date. Some won’t germinate but most will.
Don’t forget looking for foragables or ask neighbors around your neighborhood. Transplant sprigs (not the whole plant) or wait until it goes to seed or harvest.
Tip for growing lettuces and greens - harvest the older lower leaves only. A few days later, again harvest only the lower leaves. Continue that practice and the plant will last long into the season. Harvesting all the leaves or only the new leaves will kill the plant.
Canned corned beef will last 5 years. Food properly packaged in a vacuum sealed bag and frozen can last indefinitely.
For vegetables, grow from seeds.
I bought basics from LDS on line store - very good pricing. Packed in #10 cans good for about 30 years.
Rice, Beans, Oats, Wheat, Flour, Potatoes, carrots, apples, onions, pasta to name the main ones.
Excellent planning tool for preparing:
http://everythingunderthesunblog.blogspot.com/
Good Video on you tube by Wendy Dewitt. There’s also a DVD that can be purchased on Amazon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY5kiCzaeYc
Best thing I ever did was get a pressure canner. I purchase meat on sale and can it - serves as preps and saves money.
The best IMHO.
I see adds for the 4Patriot brand - might get some to try.
>>You need hot water to activate them. And hot water would be a luxury in hard times.<<
If things are hard enough that you don’t have access to hot water, then you are in big trouble if the water is not safe to drink.
Printing instructions for making a rocket stove is also a good idea if you live where there are lots of twigs. I have instructions for one made of 26 bricks, but you can make them out of cans and other materials.
> If things are hard enough that you don’t have access to hot water, then you are in big trouble if the water is not safe to drink. <
That’s a very good point. Someone here mentioned the importance of having a water purification device as part of your kit. And someone else mentioned spices, just to make your food more palatable.
Lots of good info. on this thread!
My friend and her husband bought 2 huge deyhdrater ovens at 4K a piece. They are doing meat, eggs, fruit, veggies. They put them in barrels with oxygen packets. She gets 700 eggs a week from chicken farmer who can’t sell eggs that are double yoked, wrinkled, defected and turns them into powder and seals them in special bags. She has cans food like crazy. They have 20 acres and bought goats and she makes goat cheese as well.
I was thinking of buying survival kits from patriot.
It’s already surpassed the number of posts than my three stand-alone prepper threads did.
Following thread
Snowmageddon back in February here in DFW sure opened my eyes about being prepared - especially about water. Power was out for 20 hours but water was not running for several days.
Beans and rice and canned meat.
Where do you store/keep your Harvest Right? Sure seems like it takes up a LOT of space.
Did you fill your bathtubs, with water, before the freeze hit?
We had to do this, in hurricane areas....I know you’re not hurricane...but...serves the same purpose.
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